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Limited labels for unlimited data: active learning for speaker recognition

In this paper, we attempt to quantify the amount of labeled data necessary to build a state-of-the-art speaker recognition system. We begin by using i-vectors and the cosine similarity metric to represent an unlabeled set of utterances, then obtain labels from a noiseless oracle in the form of pairwise queries. Finally, we use the resulting speaker clusters to train a PLDA scoring function, whi...

Chapter 15. Creativity 1 What Is Creativity?

Research on organizational creativity has increased rapidly in the last decade. Not only is creativity of interest to scientific researchers, it has become a compelling topic in the popular media, with recent articles in Psychology Today (Gryskiewicz 2000), Fast Company (Dahl 2000), and in business-oriented publications such as the Harvard Business Review (Hargadon and Sutton 2000). Why this in...

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Coronary heart disease leads to myocardial infarction and is a major cause of death in the United States. Myocardial infarctions result from atherosclerotic plaque deposits inthecoronary atiefies, ‘educing blood flow through these arteries which supply oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. The two major approaches for restoring adequate blood flow are “coronary bypass graft surgery” md “cor...